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Some Words Feel Truer in Spanish

The Problem With Saying ‘Sex Assigned at Birth’

Stop Corporatizing My Students

Yiddish Is Having a Moment

Women’s ‘Weak Language’ Is a Secret Source of Strength

A Ruling From Readers: ‘Shame’ on the Court

I Gave Up English for Lent

The War on ‘Wokeness’

Some Hear Grammar Don’ts. I Hear the Future of English.

Honestly, You Should Keep Using These Verboten Terms

Gender-Neutral Pronouns: The Singular ‘They’ and Alternatives

How to Say What You Need to Say in Another Language

The Softening of American Conversation

How Covid-19 Threatens Native Languages

We All Speak a Language That Will Go Extinct

Call a Thing a Thing

Sex Does Not Mean Gender. Equating Them Erases Trans Lives.

Will Trump’s Defenders Pass the Test of Legitimacy?

Depression and Anxiety in a Polarized Time

What Quakers Can Teach Us About the Politics of Pronouns